The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1887-12-10
White Oaks and Lincoln Co..
Important Facts, Figures,
and Statistics.

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New. Mexico, 81 miles by the mail
road rom Carthage, the terminus
of he San Pedro coal mine branch
of the A. T. 81 S. +. X. r., 1913
miles from Socorro, on the main
line. 155 miles from Ell Paso, Tex
as. and IS from Lincoln, the Co.
scat.
White Oaks isthe largest town
in the county, and the seat OF m
important supply trade. 1t is fine
" situated in a valley, among the
snurs of the Carlo range, at an ell
%evation of $40 feet above sea
level. 1t has two religious organ
izations, Methodist and Congrega-
tionalist, a large and prosperous
nuhlic school, two weekly newspa-
1ers. five prosperous mercantile es-
Adjustments, two hotels, two bill
lard alls, two blacksmith shops,
Zone also a wagon snop,) one TWEEN
ty stamp gold mill in operation al
SO a Huntington Centrifugal mill,
and a 10 stamp gold mill.
The great Homestake Gold Mines
are one mile N. W. of the centre of
the town, and around them are a
dozen rich mines, less developed.
Almost adjoining the town, on the
$. f.. are inexhaustible mines OF
coal, varying from bitumlnous to
semi-anthracite. From four to
seven miles N. w. Of the town, in
the Lone Mountain region, are eX-
tensive bodies Of magnetic iron
ores. of excellent quality and high
grade. Twenty miles south and
south west lie the silver lead mines
of the Bonito mining district, the
rich gold mines of the Nogal min
ing district, and the copper (%silver
bearlng) ores of the "west side"
The town is abundantly supplied
with water ; wood is abundant in
the foothills, and timber in the
mountain ranges.
White Oaks has a daily mail to
Carthage, on the railway, and to
Fl. Stanton, 81 miles east. 1t is
the present objective point of the
Chicago, St. LOUIS & Ell Paso RI
now building from Ell Paso, Texas,
and is destined to be an important
uoint upon that railway when it is
completed to Kansas City, as the
necessary link in the shortest posi-
bic line between Chicago and the
CITY of Mexico.
Pho County of Lincoln, in the
,mth.eastern corner Of New MeXi
{. is $50 miles i'll extreme length,
md 1850 in extreme breadth. and
oumins 24,45O square miles. Ii
divided. troIp north to south, bN
he Rio Pccos.an i uortant Ntream,
vl,ich receives within the county
umerous tributaries arising i'll thu
asst side of the Great Range.
The western part IF the County
divided bv mountains, locally
nown as the Gallinas, JicarilIas,
arizos, Sierra Blancos, &c, all
,rtions of the Great Mountain
ange dividing Eastern Now Mex
h. The peaks of these ranges
,rv fron-Gallinas and Jacks
LAX, about 5000 feet, to Carlo,
900, Nogal, 10000, and Sierra
hnco, $4,000.
The population of the County
rs 5000 in 1885, now about6, 1000
re towns, other than White Oaks,
a Lincoln, San Patriclo, Pichaco,
ICED, Dowlin's Mill, Galena, Ros-
vi. Seven Rivers, Three Rivers,
al Lookout.
Two-thirds of the County con-
ss OF fine grazing lands, mainly
vi watered, and stocked with
5000 head of cattle, an increase
al. 900 per cent. in 5 years. The
Lgora goat has made his appear
ne in the mountains OF Lincoln
Gntv, and he is here to stay. lie
rges where nothing else willard
itexcecdingly profitable to his
mer. There are but few sheep
ihe county, about $4,000 horses
a mules, and burros, (Anglia
JSass es,) like the sands of the
shore, for multitude,
n the Penasco, Ruidoso, Boni-
t,Hondo, Seven Rivers, Black
Rr. and Pecos, there are the fin
es,f agricultural lands. Fine
las have been opened on al
TIE streams, and upon them has
be produced in exceptional quail
itud quantity every farm pro
uwhich can be raised at such
anleyation. The experience OF
th,te Chas. Fritz demonstrated
thL.incoln County will produce
in ,undaLce, all the Northern
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